Egypt Revolution

The environment a person grows up in and the challenges she faces
are part of shaping her personality. But how she deals with
challenges demonstrates her character as a leader and a person. I
am writing this essay under particularly challenging circumstances
that are part of the person I am and to introduce myself, I would
like to share those circumstances with you. As I type, I can hear
the shooting in the streets, with all of the young and old men in
my neighborhood trying to protect their families and neighbors not
only from the gangs in the streets but also from the police
themselves. How hard it is to see the youth fighting to gain their
freedom from a dictator and his government that have been
suffocating one of the best and largest countries in the Middle
East for thirty years! Our revolution started on Tuesday, January
25, 2011, when people from different segments of society, including
the elite, middle and poor classes, peacefully marched to downtown
Cairo trying to express themselves, finally, and ask for their
freedom from the deceitful regime. This is the simplest demand a
person can make. We were not even asking for higher living
standards, just to take back a country that has been held back from
development for three decades now. When the youth took to the
street, a nation that had long boasted about its ancestors-but did
little to make their country proud-stood up on its own feet to
build its own history. But our police-who are supposed to protect
us-deployed all means of violence against us. They couldn't hide
and silence us anymore, so they started killing innocent people who
did nothing except asking for their right to pursue a good life and
a better country. At the end of the day, the police vanished from
the streets, leaving the people to defend against thieves who the
police let out of prison: a betrayal from within our own
government! We kept struggling until our president stepped down on
Friday, February 11th; on this day part of our dream came true.
However, this alone is not enough. The people of the country must
change themselves to help this new democratic system grow in a
healthy environment. Egyptians have finally created their own
history, but we cannot stop with one victory; we must bring modern
business and administrative practices to help our country catch up
with the West. And this will happen through average people like me,
who got their education in public school and participated in this
great revolution, which will not be concluded by great speeches but
with people like me achieving their dreams in spite of all the
obstacles